After Quote by Hallie Ephron

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four…

— Tess Gerritsen

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is…

— Marilyn Hacker

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.…

— Pam Houston

I get up very early and write a lot.

— Mark Kurlansky

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though…

— Chinua Achebe

I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the day before,…

— Michael Connelly

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even…

— Tina Fey

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.

— Rod Serling

One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between…

— Catherine Mayer

I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.

— Arthur Bradford

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's…

— Ramsey Campbell